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1.		Obama administration moves forward with unique Internet ID for all Americans (engadget.com)
		239 points by Stevenup7002 on Jan 9, 2011 \| 186 comments
2.		And suddenly, you're hip (perl.org)
		182 points by Phra on Jan 9, 2011 \| 142 comments
3.		The Python Paradox (paulgraham.com)
		161 points by tswicegood on Jan 9, 2011 \| 78 comments
4.		Reddit/HN clone in Clojure (bestinclass.dk)
		124 points by pepijndevos on Jan 9, 2011 \| 21 comments
5.		StackOverflow clone, created entirely with Redis and jQuery (servicestack.net)
		123 points by mythz on Jan 9, 2011 \| 61 comments
6.		Ie7-js (code.google.com)
		111 points by olalonde on Jan 9, 2011 \| 28 comments
7.		The PhD Problem: "Talk of a ‘higher education bubble’ may not be idle chatter” (corante.com)
		96 points by cwan on Jan 9, 2011 \| 78 comments
8.		That guy who called the big one? Don’t listen to him. (boston.com)
		96 points by aaronbrethorst on Jan 9, 2011 \| 49 comments
9.		Microsoft is Dead (paulgraham.com)
		97 points by rajivn on Jan 9, 2011 \| 93 comments
10.		Dive Into 2010: HTML5 Book Reflection (diveintomark.org)
		93 points by rafaelc on Jan 9, 2011 \| 10 comments
		jrockway on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Int... I'll be getting one of these when hell freezes over. If that means starting my own Internet, then that's exactly what I'll do.
		flyt on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Int... The silver lining is that by the time this project goes through study after study, development, testing, and finally deployment 5-10 years will have passed and the Internet will fundamentally change in ways that either makes this instantly irrelevant or impossible to enforce.
13.		Particle Video (flash) (unitzeroone.com)
		76 points by millions on Jan 9, 2011 \| 6 comments
14.		MapReduce for Idiots (petewarden.typepad.com)
		70 points by coderdude on Jan 9, 2011 \| 12 comments
		yread on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve's story - Google employee #13 Over a two-week period, I left messages on every single voice mailbox I could get at that company. I was never able to get a human on the phone or get a call back I thought this would be about Google
16.		Battle of the Lisps (symbo1ics.com)
		67 points by gnosis on Jan 9, 2011 \| 7 comments
17.		Add support for CSS3 properties to IE6-8 with CSS3PIE (css3pie.com)
		67 points by jonasvp on Jan 9, 2011 \| 11 comments
18.		Node.JS 0.3.4 out (with experimental HTTPS) (groups.google.com)
		63 points by Rauchg on Jan 9, 2011 \| 13 comments
19.		In Defense Of The PhD (soundandcomplete.com)
		60 points by arespredator on Jan 9, 2011 \| 43 comments
		dantheman on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Int... >>We are going to end up with something sooner or later. I think this type of attitude really hurts in a democracy. Every year people push bad ideas, and we must fight back against them.
		paul on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Steve's story - Google employee #13 We were all in the right place at the right time. There is something to be said for making an effort to put yourself in the "right" place though.
22.		The Social Disease (whattofix.com)
		58 points by DanielBMarkham on Jan 9, 2011 \| 10 comments
		msy on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: And suddenly, you're hip Thing is, while both Ruby & Vim have been driven by what she's describing she neatly sidestepped why those movements got started in the first place. Ruby gained huge traction primarily via Rails because working on PHP is unenjoyable to many and Ruby is a really pleasant language to work with. Vim's recent resurgence can largely be traced to development of Textmate grinding to a complete halt. Textmate's rise a few years ago was due to BBEdit failing to evolve. Git beats seven shades of shit out of SVN. Erlang provides a proven answer to concurrency issues. Javascript is the only choice for the ever more important front-end side of web development. Each of these shifts of development momentum have rational, logical underpinnings. The buzz, the screen casts and other errata are a consequence of a lot of people making the same logical, reasoned choice and talking about it in public. I cannot think of anything that's changed in Perl that'd justify any such interest. I admit that may be my ignorance. Making sexy screencasts might get a little traffic but you can't astroturf wave of developer momentum with them.
		drats on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Int... Remind me again of why we "need" a solution such as this? All this screeching reminds me of the people wanting a centralized solution to spam in the 1990s via government control or micropayments. We don't hear from them anymore because of spam filters and increased storage and bandwidth. My google account has double authentication now, telephone as well as a second email address, and serves as a central repository for all my other accounts across the web if I happen to forget a password. I can change providers if I want as well. Further, my VISA card is tied to my identity for purchases and donations. But anything that doesn't involve that isn't tied to my identity. So please just go shove it with your "need". It just makes me furious that this is even being proposed, it's totally unnecessary meddling and we all KNOW it will be abused.
		CWuestefeld on Jan 9, 2011 \| parent \| context \| on: Obama administration moves forward with unique Int... so long as it's optional I'm not worried. I've got a bridge to sell you, too. Social Security Numbers, we were promised, would not be used as personal identifiers. See, e.g., http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C02EFD71039F... FOR many years, Social Security cards carried an admonition that they were to be used "for Social Security and tax purposes -- not for identification." You've got my personal guarantee that if an optional Internet ID is created today, it will be required before long. This is how the system works. Witness the gradual ratcheting up of (ridiculous) security measures in airports if you're skeptical.
26.		Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: Speculating Sucks (2008) (heroku.com)
		56 points by daverecycles on Jan 9, 2011 \| 5 comments
27.		Flatland: A Forgivably Flat Classic (americanscientist.org)
		50 points by jaybol on Jan 9, 2011 \| 22 comments
28.		One Year In Two Minutes (eirikso.com)
		50 points by henriklied on Jan 9, 2011 \| 12 comments
29.		Mental hashing for paper address books (with Python) (canonical.org)
		49 points by limmeau on Jan 9, 2011 \| 11 comments
30.		Ask HN: What software do you use for your startup?
		49 points by olalonde on Jan 9, 2011 \| 70 comments
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